Monthly Archives: June 2016

The gallery is pleased to announce that Albright-Knox Museum has acquired “East Coast” (2014), by Kim Rugg, for their permanent collection.

Founded officially in December 1862, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy—the governing body of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery—is among the country’s oldest public arts institutions in the United States. Since its inception as The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, the museum has been dedicated to acquiring, exhibiting, and preserving modern and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the collection, presentation, and interpretation of the artistic expressions of our times. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s 150-year tradition of collecting, conserving, and exhibiting the art of its time has given rise to one of the world’s most extraordinary art collections. Thomas Hoving, art historian and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, said that “the Albright-Knox Art Gallery should be on everyone’s list to see, for it’s an overwhelming art experience. Small, intimate, and seductive, the museum has one of the most thumping modern and contemporary collections in the world.”

Rugg received her MFA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (London). Her work can be seen in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (D.C.) and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Honolulu Museum of Art, the Norton Museum (FL), and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX) among others. She has been included in exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne), and Nettie Horn Gallery (Manchester), P.P.O.W. Gallery (NYC), and was the recipient of the Thames and Hudson Prize from the Royal College of Art Society in 2004. She lives and works in London (UK).

Spanish new media artist, Daniel Canogar hasa special project titled Cannula on display at the University of Salamanca.

Electronic animation of Cannula refers directly to the pictorial tradition of abstract expressionism. In this case, the palette of the artwork projected onto the facade of the historic building of the University of Salamanca (Patio de Escuelas) is not painting, but videos posted on Youtube. A keyboard placed in front of the building will allow the public to enter a search in this audiovisual portal of Internet. Then a video of the introduced subject is downloaded. Projected onto the façade, it will eventually merge with the amalgam of videos from previous searches.